lead poisoning
'Ticking time bomb': Toxic lead paint found in 900 NYC classrooms
More than 900 city classrooms repeatedly tested positive for lead paint over the past five years — amounting to what one expert calls a “ticking time bomb” that’s waiting to...
Workers repainting NYC school with 1,000-plus lead paint violations
Workers on Thursday were repainting a Queens elementary school that racked up more than 1,000 positive tests for lead paint -- as neighbors expressed outrage over the alarming situation revealed...
NYC schools tested positive for lead paint nearly 50K times in 5 years
Safety inspectors discovered dangerous lead paint in city classrooms more than 38,000 times during the past five years — with almost half the findings in rooms that housed highly vulnerable...
NYCHA falls behind on lead sweep of public housing apartments
The city’s embattled Housing Authority is ending 2019 the way it began — behind the ball on lead paint checks. Officials have only inspected 28,000 of the 137,000 apartments they...
City leaders blast de Blasio administration over lead crisis after Post exposé
Local leaders blasted City Hall’s years-long bungling of efforts to get lead out of New York’s public and private apartments Monday, following a Post exposé on housing honcho Vito Mustaciuolo’s...
NYCHA lead czar's toxic record with city's private housing stock
The housing honcho who is supposed to be tackling NYCHA’s lead crisis failed to protect the city’s private buildings from the toxic substance in his previous gig, a Post investigation...
Court rules Trump EPA unlawfully ignored dangerous chemicals
BILLINGS, Mont. — The Trump administration unlawfully excluded millions of tons of some of the most dangerous materials in public use from a safety review, a federal appeals court ruled...
NYC Council members rip de Blasio's latest efforts to combat toxic lead
City lawmakers blasted the de Blasio administration Wednesday over its repeated failures to protect children from lead, leaving thousands of kids exposed to the brain-damaging substance. “There is no value...
NYC fails to punish landlords for lead violations
The city collected just $10,000 in fines against landlords for violating its strict lead laws since 2004 — a less-than-1%-sliver of the nearly $2 million in penalties handed out, according...
Good news and not-so-good news on NYCHA
There’s good news and less-good news from Bart Schwartz, the federal monitor overseeing the New York City Housing Authority. He’s just OK’d NYCHA’s plans to spend up to $450 million...
Federal watchdog signs off on NYCHA's $450M boiler plan
The federal watchdog for NYCHA signed off on the agency's plan to use $450 million in state aid to replace decrepit boilers and elevators in its developments, officials said Thursday....
Number of kids with dangerously high lead levels falls 10% in NYC
The city's Health Department announced a 90% drop in the number of young kids with dangerously high levels of lead since 2005 and a 10% decline in the past year....
East Village landlord sues tenant, housing agency in lead abatement dispute
An East Village apartment landlord -- at a building where a toddler allegedly contracted lead poisoning -- has sued a tenant and a housing agency claiming they won’t allow him...
Parents rip into de Blasio, city leaders over lead-filled apartments
A damning report this week detailed the city’s failure to hold landlords accountable for lead-tainted apartments — but its revelations were hardly news to the thousands of families stuck in...
De Blasio slammed for shrugging off latest lead-paint scandal
City Comptroller Scott Stringer and other critics blasted Mayor de Blasio on Friday for what they called his sloth-like reaction to the comptroller's audit that exposed how Big Apple agencies...
De Blasio is all meh on blistering audit about lead-poisoned kids
Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday he hasn't bothered to find out "all the details" of a blistering city comptroller audit that exposed how two city agencies failed to protect...
Comptroller audit finds 12K kids tested positive for lead poisoning
The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene had data on the positive lead tests, but it never got to HPD because the two agencies had "zero communication" with each other..
Lead filters working in Newark, tap water safe to drink: officials
Newark's tap water is safe to drink — mostly — city and state officials said Monday as new tests showed that 97 percent of lead filters installed in the New...
'Life sentence of pain': Mass shooting survivor now has lead poisoning from bullets
A woman who survived a 2007 mass shooting in Utah said she now has lead poisoning from 300 shotgun pellets still in her body, leaving her with debilitating headaches, nausea...
Paris child at risk of lead poisoning after Notre Dame fire
Health officials in Paris said Wednesday that a young boy needs medical monitoring because tests conducted after the Notre Dame Cathedral fire showed that he was at risk of lead...